adore_milla | Sep. 12th, 2010

Sep. 12th, 2010

The actress didn't like the tough character she plays opposite Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, but the 'Resident Evil' star found a way to handle it.

Fighting legions of monsters? No problem. Behaving like an "animal," even with the help of Robert De Niro and Edward Norton? Problem. " 'Resident Evil' movies are easy because they're so fun, with the excitement and the action; with a movie like 'Stone,' it was such a hard character to play," says Milla Jovovich, whose Lucetta may be a sexual weapon in the duel between De Niro's and Norton's characters, or possibly much more. "It was one of those people I would never want to know in my real life. To have to give her love and compassion and not judge her took its toll by the end of the day. By the time I'd get home, I just felt so — you just want to get in the shower and scrub off the day because she's just so different from who I am. She's this wild kind of animal."

The actress best known for action movies such as the "Resident Evil" franchise is decidedly down to earth in director John Curran's "Stone," which opens Oct. 8. The intimate psychological drama pits burned-out, embittered Detroit parole officer Jack (De Niro) against manipulative inmate Stone (Norton), who may or may not be undergoing a spiritual conversion as he angles for his release. The convict enlists his wife (Jovovich) to influence Jack by any means necessary, testing the limits of all three.

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Actress Milla Jovovich returns to movie theaters with "Resident Evil: Afterlife," the fourth installment of the successful video game-to-film horror franchise -- only this time she is in 3D. Jovovich, who met her husband director/producer/writer Paul WS Anderson on the set of 2002's original "Resident Evil," teams with him again for the latest film in which her character, Alice, helps save survivors of a virus that has ravaged Earth and turned some people into zombies and other creatures.

At the recent Comic-Con pop culture convention in San Diego, the model-turned-actress spoke to Reuters about what makes the "Resident Evil" movies successful and the challenges of kicking zombie butts in 3D.

Q: The "Resident Evil" films have generated over USD 378 million at global box offices. What is it about these films that have succeeded where so many Hollywood video game adaptations have failed?
A: 'Resident Evil' has always been an independent movie, which I think is very special about it. It's not a studio concoction. We started as a tiny, little European action film, and everybody involved, Paul, myself and Michelle Rodriguez, were into the game. That was the birth of this franchise. It was just people who really love the games, who really love the characters, and love to kick butt and take no prisoners, and girls enjoying taking on these tough parts.

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Milla Jovovich’s movie Resident Evil: Afterlife opened this weekend, and the actress is already gearing up for the series' next installment. "This new Resident Evil is the first one to ever open at number one worldwide. It’s the biggest movie in the franchise," she told us, while hosting the Mercedes-Benz Tea Party at Lincoln, the new restaurant at Lincoln Center.

“So we’re definitely going to make another one,” she said, adding that director Paul W.S. Anderson, her husband, already has some ideas for the fifth Resident Evil installment, and this time he wants the audiences' ideas, too. "We’ve been talking to a lot of fans on Twitter and stuff, so it’s probably going to be one of the first movies where we really talk to fans to see what they want, and what characters they want to see. It's going to be a more interactive process."

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Mere minutes after walking the red carpet into the front doors of the Elgin Theatre Friday night for the gala premiere of her movie Stone, Milla Jovovich walked straight out the back doors. Our intrepid tipster caught these shots of the actor slipping out at 9:39 p.m. (the premiere was scheduled to start at 9) and jumping in an official TIFF SUV.

Curious if Jovovich was the only one to scamper off, the tipster asked the police guarding the door, who confirmed that Robert DeNiro—who also stars in the movie—had left the premiere several minutes before Jovovich. As of 10:30 p.m., neither star had returned.

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It was a zombified weekend at the box office, in more ways than one. Resident Evil: Afterlife was the only movie to show any real signs of life, opening at No. 1 in 3,202 theaters with $27.7 million, according to early estimates. It’s a record debut for the based-on-a-videogame zombie franchise.

The 3-D film certainly benefitted from higher 3-D ticket prices, which helped boost the four-quel to one of the best-ever openings for a post-Labor Day weekend (traditionally one of the weakest frames of the year, as kids go back to school and the NFL season kicks into gear). This year’s first fall weekend was no exception — the next six films’ three-day gross combined still can’t quite equal Resident Evil: Afterlife‘s debut figure.

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